Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these. – Ahmet Davutoglu
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain. – Carroll Quigley
I am always asked, ‘You grew up in Africa?’ Every time I introduce a film, or I’m interviewed, ‘You grew up in Africa?’ – Claire Denis
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface. – Bela Fleck
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag. – Al Sharpton
Why would you want to go all the way to Africa and shoot a giraffe? I don’t think you can eat him. I only shoot stuff I can eat. – Boo Weekley
I’ve always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn’t an actor, I’d be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something. – Callan McAuliffe
There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago. – Boutros Boutros-Ghali
I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story. – Buchi Emecheta
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves. – Abdullah Ibrahim
Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it’s the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I’ve been to Africa three times. All right? You can’t bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can’t bring it into fundamental Islam. – Bill O’Reilly
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand. – Abraham Lincoln
If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants – and potentially a lot of allergy issues. – Barry Marshall
The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive. – Ann Cotton
As far as the Middle East and North Africa is concerned, we need to reconsider the question of reliability and stability of hydrocarbons. – Alexey Miller
White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa. – Barbara Block
Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination. – Alan Huffman
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane. – Binyavanga Wainaina
No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans. – Conrad Black
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it’s with Africa or childhood. – Binyavanga Wainaina